Wildfires are raging across the Pantanal tropical wetlands in southern Brazil, one of the most biodiversity areas in the world and a major tourist destination, regional authorities said on Thursday.

The Pantanal, the world’s largest freshwater wetland, straddles Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. National and international action is urgently required to counter an unprecedented conservation ...

The Pantanal, Brazil's wetlands region, covers an area roughly the size of England. Although this region is typically flooded ...

Record-setting wildfires are raging in the Pantanal region in Brazil. In a densely vegetated rural area the size of England, ...

The wetlands of Colombo – described by one expert as "the lungs and kidneys" of Sri Lanka's capital but long since neglected ...

Brazil is burning. From the Amazon rainforest to the Pantanal wetlands, flames have consumed millions of hectares of forest ...

a vet gingerly dresses wounds on a jaguar that was caught in wildfires raging in the world's largest tropical wetland. While the animal is expected to heal, her home in the Pantanal continues to burn.

Forest fires in the Amazon region, and in particular in the states of Amazonas and Mato Grosso do Sul -where most of the Pantanal wetlands are located – have led to carbon emission levels that ...

The farmers used 2,4-D -- a herbicide found in "Agent Orange," infamously used in the Vietnam War -- to clear 81,200 hectares of the Pantanal wetland, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, said the report ...